There is a wise old proverb which says: “You cannot love what you do not know.” Using a crude example, you cannot say that you don’t like apple pie until you tried it. But if you do try to taste home-made apple pie fresh from the oven, that might change your mind! I would make a good bet that Grandma’s delicious recipe will change your mind forever! same is true for liking or not liking certain people in our lives. If we take the time to get to know them, we realize that our assumptions about them were all wrong. I remember a good friend of mine who was a therapist saying to me how over his career listening to countless numbers of people, many who had suffered personality problems. Once my friend got to know each person, he realized he liked every one of them. There wasn’t one person that he could say he disliked! Isn’t that true about Trinity as well? If we haven’t taken time to get to know the Blessed Trinity, how can we get to love God? Most of what we think we know about God goes back to our childhood days. For many people, God appears to be an old man with a white beard who is there to judge them. They fear God instead of love God. They fail to see that the Trinity is all about God’s inner life, which is a life made up of Love and Mercy. Of course, it is a mystery so we will never understand Trinity completely while on earth. However, some of the great mystics of the Church have had deep experiences of Trinity through their prayer and study of the Scriptures. Here are some important truths that they could share with us about Trinity. First, God is a family God. That is, God’s internal family consists of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. Our human families are created in the image of this triune God. Secondly, we have been adopted into this Trinitarian life because God is “crazy in love with us!” (St. Catherine of Siena). This is through our baptism. That is why Jesus calls us God’s “beloved sons and daughters.” So, Happy Father’s Day to all you fathers this Sunday. May you always know that you have a heavenly Father (Son & Holy Spirit) watching over you and wants you to get to know Him more and more each day. Don’t be afraid to love your Father!                                                              ~ Fr. John